Discourses Concerning the Being and Natural Perfections of God, Volume 1H. Whitridge, 1757 - God |
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... most obvious appearances in the human constitution , ) we may confider whether they are not very becoming us . It is true we grow up to the exercise of our reason gradu- ally ; the first part of life is pafs'd over with very little ...
... most obvious appearances in the human constitution , ) we may confider whether they are not very becoming us . It is true we grow up to the exercise of our reason gradu- ally ; the first part of life is pafs'd over with very little ...
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... most natural way of attaining fatisfaction in that great point ; For by the Deity we mean the powerful , wise and good parent of mankind , the maker , preferver , and ruler , of the world ; and how fhall we know him but by the ...
... most natural way of attaining fatisfaction in that great point ; For by the Deity we mean the powerful , wise and good parent of mankind , the maker , preferver , and ruler , of the world ; and how fhall we know him but by the ...
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... most pernicious , have been the most frequent in the world , the Chriftian world itself not al- together excepted . Not to mention the Gods of Epicurus , which he imagined , or pretend- ed to have imagined , to be a kind of indolent ...
... most pernicious , have been the most frequent in the world , the Chriftian world itself not al- together excepted . Not to mention the Gods of Epicurus , which he imagined , or pretend- ed to have imagined , to be a kind of indolent ...
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... most imperfect Theifts . Befides , I think , in fuch an inquiry , we ought to be- gin with the plaineft principles , that having once feen them established with clear evi- dence , we may then proceed to points less obvious . Thus , if ...
... most imperfect Theifts . Befides , I think , in fuch an inquiry , we ought to be- gin with the plaineft principles , that having once feen them established with clear evi- dence , we may then proceed to points less obvious . Thus , if ...
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... most incon- fiftent notions of acting and being acted upon . And as thus the ideas of cause and effect , of active and paffive power , of agency and ne- ceffity , take their rife from an attention to our felves , our own minds and our ...
... most incon- fiftent notions of acting and being acted upon . And as thus the ideas of cause and effect , of active and paffive power , of agency and ne- ceffity , take their rife from an attention to our felves , our own minds and our ...
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Page 34 - Praise ye him sun and moon : praise him all ye stars of light. Praise him ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens ; let them praise the name of the Lord ; for he commanded, and they were created.
Page 34 - Both young men, and maidens ; old men, and children : Let them praise the name of the LORD : for his name alone is excellent ; his glory is above the earth and heaven.
Page 34 - Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons, and all deeps: Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word: Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars: Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl...
Page 214 - And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them which kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will warn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Page 259 - Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
Page 141 - When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hands ', to tread my courts...
Page 220 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 133 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Page 262 - The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.